Different Maturity Levels due to their Imprisonment
In the “The Lie” and “So Cruel Prison How Could Betide” both speakers are imprisoned and about to be executed. The only thing they have is to prepare for their death. Yet, each reacts differently. While both are preparing for their future death, their attitudes towards their execution is different: In Sir Walter Ralegh’s poem, the speaker is prepared to leave this world unlike Henry Howard’s speaker who does not accept his fate even though he will be executed either way. Both speakers are expressing themselves while in prison, but one reacts with a greater level of maturity and acceptance than the other who acts more childlike, this is seen through the use of apostrophes, tropes, parison, …show more content…
The speaker tells his soul what he has to do before he departs to another world, stating “Go, soul, the body’s guest, / Upon a thankless errand;” he has something planned for his soul after his dead– to inform others of the lies he has mentioned. In addition he also includes a mistress that is mention towards the end of the poem on being ready to let her go, “Must die for her whom nature gave him, / because her darling would not save him” (Lines …). The speaker indicates that this women that he has fancied did not respond to him, and states “give her love the lie” (lines…), this is identified to his willingness to move on and leave that behind in comparison to the other speaker. This is a realization that shows us that he’s ready for what has to come his way: his death. His perspection on his situation makes him more wiser since he handles his situation in a way that he acknowledges it and accepts it.
In contrast, in “So Cruel How Could Betide,” the speaker focuses his attitude towards his childhood memory where he used to play with the son’s king. After years, he is still obsessed over his childhood memory that he has not left behind. This is seen in stanza 1, “As proud Windsor? Where I in lust and joy / With a king’s son my childish years did pass” (Line…), the speaker tends to focus on his joyfulness as a child where his main focus is on these memories demonstrated a sense that he is unable to move on. This shows a sense of uneasiness for what is coming his way: his
In the “The Lie” and “So Cruel Prison How Could Betide” both speakers are imprisoned and about to be executed. The only thing they have is to prepare for their death. Yet, each reacts differently. While both are preparing for their future death, their attitudes towards their execution is different: In Sir Walter Ralegh’s poem, the speaker is prepared to leave this world unlike Henry Howard’s speaker who does not accept his fate even though he will be executed either way. Both speakers are expressing themselves while in prison, but one reacts with a greater level of maturity and acceptance than the other who acts more childlike, this is seen through the use of apostrophes, tropes, parison, …show more content…
The speaker tells his soul what he has to do before he departs to another world, stating “Go, soul, the body’s guest, / Upon a thankless errand;” he has something planned for his soul after his dead– to inform others of the lies he has mentioned. In addition he also includes a mistress that is mention towards the end of the poem on being ready to let her go, “Must die for her whom nature gave him, / because her darling would not save him” (Lines …). The speaker indicates that this women that he has fancied did not respond to him, and states “give her love the lie” (lines…), this is identified to his willingness to move on and leave that behind in comparison to the other speaker. This is a realization that shows us that he’s ready for what has to come his way: his death. His perspection on his situation makes him more wiser since he handles his situation in a way that he acknowledges it and accepts it.
In contrast, in “So Cruel How Could Betide,” the speaker focuses his attitude towards his childhood memory where he used to play with the son’s king. After years, he is still obsessed over his childhood memory that he has not left behind. This is seen in stanza 1, “As proud Windsor? Where I in lust and joy / With a king’s son my childish years did pass” (Line…), the speaker tends to focus on his joyfulness as a child where his main focus is on these memories demonstrated a sense that he is unable to move on. This shows a sense of uneasiness for what is coming his way: his